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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
4 Big LOCKOUT.
The Master Builders of Chicago
Suspend all Operations.
Both Employers and Workmen
Determine to Hold Out.

A big lockout of workmen employed In the
building trades in Chicago has been brought
about by the employers, who have suspended
all operations The master builders and con-
tractors of the city have declared war to the
knife upon what they call the arrogant
dictation of trades unionism in all its forms.
Over 800 members of the Builders and Trad
ers, Exchange have combined to defy and il
possible, break down the Bricklayers' and
Hod Carriers Unions At meeting the
President of the Builders Exchange, George
Taper, said:
strike, which was settled in a way satisfac-
to neither side Then we had the laborers'
strike, and now, on paltry whim, we have
the bricklayers' strike. This is more than we
can stand, and we have determined to stop it.
Business of all kinds is injured by
these sense!ess strikes: This is the greatest
Chicago, and every citizen OF Chicago Is
interested, every workman is interested, every
man who owns or ever expects to own dol
lars worth of property is interested. Every
man engaged id the building business,
whether member of the Exchange or not, is
invited to give his views, but we want no
agitators"
The demands and purposes of the master
x
more interference with boys who wish to
learn trade to support themselves in after
life; no more dictation as to pay days or
anything else, and no more building in
Chicago until the backbone Of the unions Is
broken.
The main hope of the master masons is
that tn, International BricklayerS' Union
will refuse to countenance the strike. Chicago
and San Francisco are the only cities IN the
United States where the local bricklayers'
union is not affiliated with the International.
1t is asserted that there is strong feeling OF
enmity between the two organizations, grow
ing out of the fact that the Chicago union re-
fused to recognize the working cards" Of the
International, and compelled every bricklayer
who came to the city to pay S25 initiation fee
before allowing him to work. 1t is thought
that an application to the International for
men by the bosses, either directly or through
an advertisement, will flood the town with
bricklayers who will ignore the local union.
On the other hand the bricklayers and hod-
carriers are defiant and aggressive. They de-
clare that they have ample means to carry
them through the lockout, and that they can
bring the bosses to terms At their meet
ing It was expected that some dissatisfac-
ton among the German element would be
manifested, but there was nothing Of the
kind, and without a dissenting voice the
meeting, which was attended by over 5000
the action Of the union in demanding q
Saturday pay day every two weeks, and re-
fusing to work on any other terms.
Never in the labor troubles Of Chicago has
the conflict between employer and employed
assumed so uncompromiSing shape, and the
outcome is awaited with great anxiety and
interest,
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LATER NEWS.

A BOILER at the sawmill of Betz & Morri-
son, at Gallipolis O., exploded, wrecking the
mill and injuring five men, three fatally.
Two Chicago Senators came to blows on
the floor of the Illinois Senate at Springfield.
Each afterward apologized to the Senate.
Ex-Governor WILLIAM SMITH, popularly
known as extra Billy" Smith, died at his
home in Fauquier County, Va, on Wednes-
day. He had been twice Governor of Vir-
ginia and was a Brigader-General in the
Confederate Army. He was eighty-nine
years of age.
NEARLY all the Chicago brick yards haye
shut down, thereby adding 1000 men to the
number idle on account of the great lockout
by employers in the building trade.
AFTER long deadlock, Pasco was nomi-
mated on Wednesday for United States
Senator from Florida by the Democratic
caucus at Tallahassee.
MAJOR J. L. RATHBoNE, of California,
has been appointed Consul-General to Paris.
There were more than 800 applicants for the
position.
The police returns show that on Sunday
eleven persons in Berlin committed or at
tempted to commit s:licide.
QUEEN VICTORIA will review so, 600 poor
school children at Hyde Park, London, on
June %. Each child will be presented with
mug commemoratin2 the Queens jubilee
ANOTHER plot to kill the Gar of Russia is
reported to have been unearthed at Noro
Tcherkash Thirty arrests have been made.
Mr.. PARSELL appeared the other day in
the British House of Commons for the first
time in some weeks, but looked feeble and
al
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

JOAQUIN MILLER proposes to end his days
in California.
ALMA TADEMA, the celebrated London
artist, has staircase Of solid brass in his
house.
COL JOHN HAY got his fortune Of s., 00O,-
600 through his marriage with Miss Stone, Of
Cleveland.
PRINCE LEOPOLD, grand-nepheW OF the
German Emperor, has been seeing the sights
in and about New York.
CAPTAIN BoYcorr, the original Boycott, is
now the agent on the Flixton Hall estate, near
Bungay, in Suffolk, England.
IT is believed that the richest man in the
world at the present time is Baron Hirsch,
the banker of London and Paris
THE Emperor Of Japan is described as dark
and with heavy, irregular features, but as
having much dignity and majesty in his bear
ing.
GOVERNOR AXEs, Of Massachusetts, lives
in magnificent style. It costs him fully $50,
600 year to keep up his Boston establish
ment
ALFRED TEyNYsoN has been England's
poet laureate since 1864 longer period
than the honor was held by any of his prede-
cessorS.
MISS ELIZABETH GARRETT, sister OF the
President OF the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
is worth about SIS, 900, 900, and Is q very
bright and business-like woman.
Mr.. JAY GOULD requires three weeks to
make the tour of his railroads. He dimes and
sleeps on board his private car from the start
to the finish, but he does not travel at
night.
GEN. s. B. BUCKNER, whom the Demo
Gratis have nominated for Governor OF Ken
lucky, is a man Of great wealth. be mas
more than $4,000 worth Of real estate IN
Chicago.
Mrs ELIZABETH CUSTER, widow of Gen
eral Custer, is tall and slender, with niacK
hair and sympathetic gray-bro"n eyes. aer
face has been q handsome one in e&rher Gays,
but anxiety and heartrendlng sorTo" nave
left upon it many marks and lines.
ROSE ELIZABETH CLEvELAND, sister OF the
President, has engaged to Mrs. SylVanus
Reed, of New York, as assistant at MRS.
Reeds school for young women. Mss Cle1e-
land promises to do no newspaper nor maga'
zine work while teaching in the school,
JONAS G.. CLARKE, Of Worcester, Mass,
who recently presented s., ,O0O, 0U to that city
for the founding of University, has made
further gift of a half million dollars worth OF
real estate, books and works Of art, and $780,
GOO in cash for the establishment OF professor
ships
SECRETARY BAYARD rises between Z and 8,
breakfasts at $50, is at the Office an hour
later and goes home about in the afternoon.
He dimes at 7 and passes the remainder Of the
evening in his study or visits one Of the few
houses whese he is in the habit Of calling Hi
health is said to be very good.
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Near-sightedness is increasing in all
parts of the civilized world. So affirms
DR.. Cohn, of Breslau, who examined
$4,000 cases; Drs. Derby and Loring, OF
New York, who examined 2,265 cases,
and Professor Anderson n. Ellis, A. NJ,
NJ. D., of Cincinnati, who examined l.
797 cases in the schools of Hamilton and
Oxford, Ohio. Defective or abnormal
eyesight is deformity which the schools
should guard against as far as possible.
1t is q detriment to success not to have
good eyes, and glasses are inconvenient
for many purposes. Yet we are told by
those whose authority is unquestionable
that those countries whose schools are
the best contain the greatest percentage
of myopic people. Defective light,
poorly warmed and poorly ventilated
schoolrooms, and lack of outdoor life,
arc altogether the leading causes of near
sight among children in school.
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Cocoanut raising is growing industry
in Southern Florida. The raiscrs do not
expect to have any monkeys to throw
down the nuts, but they will rely on
American ingenuity to construct appro-
pirate ladders for the performance of the
necessary duty. In Florida pineapplcs
and cocoanuts pay very we'll. Ten thou
sand pineapples can be raised, it is said,
to an acre, and the same amount of space
will support fifty cocoanut trees. The
latter require very little cultivation.
They begin to bear at from nine to twelve
years of age and produce from eighty to
$50 nuts to the tree. They bring about
FIVE cents apiece to the grower. Many
groves have been planted within few
years. One New Jersey gentleman has
$50, 900 trees.
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FOREST FIRES.

,rany Acres Burned on Cape Coz
and in the Northwest.
Immense forest fires have been raging Oh
Cane Cod, Mass, for several days, and many
thousand acres in the towns of Sandwich
Bourne Wareham, Agawam, and Mash
nee have been devastated. Several dweli-
ings have been burned, lnrleo'IS
the 100000 summer residence OF T.
L. Dorr. at Sandwich. The town OF hare, are,
place Of 1000 nh tbs se1ersst waa %
tions of all the men who were able 10 iso'
the tames .,o Nor+b-
Specials from dozen points in the S;sSonsin N0pIh,
ern Michigan peninsular and the Wisconsin
counties ad iacent are to the effect that 1oreSt
fires recently started are increasing. pes, s.
matches from Sault Junction say mei M
are being driven from the camps by the llreS
on the coast. The fire is in the Sault 6rancn;;
and is raging fiercely. Neguanee sends "oro
that fires are spreading to the north ana east
entering a vast tract of valuable pine; the
damage already amounting to S5o,Coo Nea, YEA,
Cascade valuable strip Of hard timber was
burning.
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wheat growers have cause tc

American wheat growers have cause to
feel cheerful over the market prospects.
The present available supply in the Uni
ted States is 179,OoO,OOO bushels As
against 1877, 900, 900 bushels last year at
this time. Of this amount, 12O, 900, 900
bushels will be required for home con-
sumption before next harvest, leaving
only 60,O0o,eeo bushels to export. For
the year ending this August, Great
Britain and Ireland will be obliged to i'm
port 150,OOO,OOO bushels. France has a
short wheat crop and will have to import
e5, ,OOo,O 900 to 1000, 900 bushels during
the summer. The only influence that
can keep down prices is the fact of an un-
usually large wheat crop in Australia.
The general tendency is toward higher
prices, and no fall is likely to occur dur
ing the next eight months.
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Foreign.

The London Times hasresumed publication
of regular articles intended to show con-
nection between "Parnellism and crime"
THE French Governments experiments with
melinite, the new explosive Of which great
things were expected, have not been salts
factory. Shells filled with me-inite failed to
pierce an iron-clad vessel against which they
were thrown.
THE Mayor of Cork has refused to partici-
pate in the Queens jubilee festivities on the
ground that in view of the Coercion bill the
invitation is little short of an outrage upon
the self-respect of the Irish people.
A MAss-MEET1NG of Toronto citizens de-
nounced Editor O'Brien TO-. coming to
Canada to attack Lord Larsdowne, the
Governor General. The Orangemen at a
meeting determined to actively oppose
O'Brien in case he attempted to speak in
Toronto.
A GREAT panic has arisen in the German
wooden trade, and seven firms have failed
within three days.
THE authorities of Manitoba, British
America, have placed patrol OH the border
line to prevent Blood Indians from raiding
into the United States.
THE five men who took the most prominent
part in the plot to assassinate the Gar OF
Russia on March 13 have been hanged.
ANOTHER crisis has taken place in French
affairs, the Chamber of Deputies rejecting
Prime Minister Goblet'S financial policy by
275 nays to 259 yeas, whereupon the resigna-
tion of the Cabinet members was rendered,
and accepted by President Grevy.
QUEEN VIcToRIA's health is said to be
seriously affected by over-exertion and anx-
iety.
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Washington.

ABOUT $50 members of the Sixth Army
Corps, who had taken part in the Sedgwick
memorial celebration at Spottsylvania Court
House, Va, called in a body at the White
House and paid their respects to the Presi-
dent.
BY the terms of the convention Of nations
for the 'protection of Industrial property"
recently ratified by President Cleveland, citi-
zens of the United States have the privilege,
valid patents in any of the countries which
are members of the convention ut any
time within the period of seven months after
patent is obtained in America. The countries
of this industrial union are Belgium, Brazil,
France, Great Britain, Guatemala, Holland,
Norway, Portugal, Salvador, San Domingo,
Servia, Spain, Sweden Switzerland, Tunis
and the United States.
THE vineyards of Germany are threatened
with devastation by the peronospora, pest
as rapacious as the phylloxera. SO CONNER
cial Agent Smith reports to the State De-
partment
THE Department of State has received no
tice that an agricultural exhibition with COM
petition in agricultural implements and ma
chinery will be held at kharkof, Russia, be-
tween October 2 and October -, 1877.
Americans can compete in exhibits of horses,
CaIIle, swine, poultry, Dees anu aSi iSui1ui "a
implements and machinery.
A NUMBER of petitions for the enforcement
of the Inter State Commerce law have lately
been received by the Commissioners.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and his entire
Cabinet, all the surviving members of the
Supreme Court, General Sheridan, Admiral
Porter and many other noted people were
present at the funeral of Justice Woods
After the services the body was conveyed to
Newark, Ohio, for final interment.
THE President has ordered the War
Department to send troops Of cavalry to
Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the purpose of
protecting the men engaged in removing wire
fences placed around public lands by cattle
owners. The Presidents proclamation
ordering the removal of these fences has not
been obeyed, and a collision between the
cavalry and cowboys is not improbable.
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get breath OF freS:l ar. re was accom-
panied by William Mullgan and D. P. Ca
hill of the National League, and by the New
York newspaper correspondents. The crowd
that had gathered groaned and hissed with
vehemence and surrounded O'Brien.
The Irish editor turned into Kings street,
which bounds the Rossin House on the north,
and walked down block to Bay street He
started down Bay street to the South. About
halfway down the street the mob surged
around him and pressed him to the side
of brick building adjoining the sidewalk.
He cried, excitedly: "Boys, this is not
fair" Three policemen, who had been fol-
lowing him from a distance, then pushed
through the crowd, and managed to extricate
him. de went down the street, with the
policemen in his rear, the mob still increasing
in numbers and violence.
At the corner of Wellington street, which
forms the south side of the square around
which O'Brien was walking, a fight attracted
the attention of the police and they ran off,
leaving OBrien unprotected. Instantly mis-
siles began to be thrown. Arotten egg struck
President Mulligan in the back, and stones
began to strike the houses before which
OBrien was walking, one of which knocked
off his hat. He picked the hat up, andheld it
so as to protect his head as much as possible.
Then he increased his pace up Well
inton street, and perfect hail
Of stones, rotten eggs, sticks, and
all sorts of missiles followed J. u. Wall, the
Associated Press reporter, was struck in the
head with a stone and knocked down sense
less. He recovered in moment, and crawled
into a little alley called Johnson's lane.
O'Brien turned to the mob and cried:
"You dogs, don't you see we are unarmed
men?'
His cry was answered by shower of stones
and brickbats. Then he started to run. The
street was unlighted, and O'Brien is so near
sighted as to be almost blind in the dark. He
tried to get into Sharp's jewelry shop, but the
windows while he was trying the door. Then
he ran into Thomas Lalorts bicycle shop,
which isnext door to the laundry. President
Mulligan was with him. They ran through
the shop, overturning the bicycles, and
trampling upon them. The mob did
not follow them Immediately, but re-
mained outside the store, smashing
the windows. and uttering the most horrible
"Hang him!h Kill the traitor!n .Down
with the dynamiters!' and the like.
D. P. Cahill, Secretary of the National
League, followed O'Brien and Mulligan into
the bicycle shop. His head was badly cut in
two places by the stones. Charles Cush-
man, a clerk in the Office of the
Crown Land Department., who hap
pened to be in the store, seized O'Briens
hand and rushed with him out of the back of
the shop into courtyard. Thence by
crevice between two buildings the party
House, and in few minutes Mr. O'Brien was
safely in his room at the hotel Not a stone
had, hit him, and he was absolutely un-
harmed
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The Garfield monument at Cleveland,
Ohio, will not be completed for two
years more. The exterior will reach
completion this summer, but it will take
a long time to perfect the interior decor
ations. The body of President Garfield
will remain in the receiving vault of the
cemetery until the monument is COM
pleted. The dedication ceremonies will
not take place inside of two years. No
arrangements have yet been made for
that event and the question as to who
the orators will be has not been consid-
ored
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

"A Two-YEAR-oLD daughter of Mrs George
Morse, of Sawyer's Falls. n. H., fell down
stairs, and was choked to death by her cloth
ing becoming entangled around her neck. At
the same time Mrs. Morse's sister was being
married Ill the parlor below.
THE Sunday liquor law was observed so
strictly i'll New York City that little Spiri-
tuous drink was sold in saloons or served to
guests at hotels.
MAYOR HEWITT, Ghauncey NJ. Depew and
Charles A. Dana addressed national meet
ing of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men in New York
A BILL to permit the sale of liquor in New
York City by hotels on Sundays was killed in
the Assembly on Monday-61 nays to II yeas.
STRIKING coal miners near Hazleton, Penn,
are being eyicted from their homes by the
company, who own all the surrounding prop
erty.
One of the greatest lockouts ever known in
New England has been inaugurated at Haver-
hill Mass. The employees of shoe firm in
that place having notified their employers
that they would strike unless certain demands
were complied with, the Manufacturers As
sociation took the matter up, and sixty-five
shops, employing 5000 hands, were closed.
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FAR And NEAR.
Important Happenings in Vari.
GUS Sections of the World.
Discovery Of an Immense Silver
Treasure in India.

The Financial Secretary Of India has ad-
vised the British Government of the discov-
cry Of an immense amount Of treasure, esti-
mated at over s25, ,00O, 900, which had been
secreted in the palace of Gwalior by the late
Maharajah. The treasure had been sunk in
pits under the vaults beneath the Zenana, and
the secret was intrusted to few servants.
The Secretary was present when the
treasure was unearthed. After removing
the earth to a depth Of six feet the
workmen uncovered great fagstones
Beneath these stones were several pits
filed to the brim with silver, chiefly
freshly coined rupees. In each pit was a
plate recording the amount Of the treasure
and the names Of the officials who had
assisted in secreting it.
The Indian Government has taken the
hoard as loan from the young Maharajah.
The native papers protest against this
aSson fSs bod of the tse Thsy
adult instead of being under n
regency controlled by the Government, be
would never have invested his whole wealth
in Indian securities. A question will be raised
in Parliament as to whether the investment
be not another name for seizure.
A Fatal Encounter With Lunatic.
Mr.. Busch, the overseer on the Woodland
plantation, fifty miles below New Orleans,
was shot few days since and seriously, il
not fatally, wounded By crazy man named
Wilson. The lunatic was armed with
a double -barreled shot gun, and at
tackled the overseer in the field, emptying
both barrels of his gun into him, breaking
both Of his legs. He then retired to his cabilI,
in which he fortified himself for seige.
Sheriff Thibaut summoned posse to assist
him in capturing the murderer. Among
those who offered their services were
Mr.. George Osmond, late editor of
the Ndscotte, Of New Orleans, and
Of the Plaquenline Protector The party
went to the mans cabin and called upon him
to surrender. Williams poked the muzzle of
the gun through the crack and fired; wound
ing Osmond fatally in the neck. The posse set
fire to the cabin, and when Wilson ran out
they shot him. Osmond was man Of pluck
While editor in New Orleans some months
ago he was attacked by two men in his office.
and killed one Of the assailants-Robert
Brewster, State Register of Voters-wounded
the other and was himself wounded
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South and West.

THOMAS KENToN, Kentucky's oldest resi-
dent, has just died at Maysvine in his one
hundredth year.
A BIG lockout has taken place in the build
ing trades at Chicago, the employers resist
ing the demands of the workmen by suspend
ing all operations. In consequence thous-
sands of bricklayers, carpenters, ETC., were
thrown out of employment
FURTHER earthquake shocks are reported
from Arizona and California. A slight shock
has also been felt at Charleston, S. C..
CAPTAIN WILLIAM MrRCHIsoN, of Media,
Miss, has tasted no food OF drink for more
than two months.
WILLIAM SANFORD, farmer of Davies
County, Ind, mistook his son for burglar,
and shot the lad to death.
HUNDREDS of car drivers were arrested in
indianapolis for refusing to obey All ordi-
nance requiring them to call out the names
of all streets as they were crossed by the
cars.
BY a recent collision on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad at Tiffin, Ohio. part of Fore
paugh's show was badly damaged, and cir
Gus employers arm SO severely crushed it
w as thought amputation would be necessary.
The pecuniary loss was $4,000